From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 05:58:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7635116A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:58:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A46E43D49 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:58:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iAU5vbdP015201; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:57:38 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:58:45 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <000501c4d68f$74a82320$0400a8c0@satellite> <20041129232747.528fdce4@dolphin.local.net> <20041130054013.GB67455@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041130054013.GB67455@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411292158.45468.kstewart@owt.com> cc: dave cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: portupgrade and index X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:58:57 -0000 On Monday 29 November 2004 09:40 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:27:47PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:57:34 -0800, Kris Kennaway > > > > > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:48:29PM -0500, dave wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've got a box that runs portupgrade to keep the most > > > > current ports. > > > > I've lately switched to make fetchindex vs. portsdb -uU which > > > > goes much faster. My problem is whenever i do a make search for > > > > a port the index.5 file is regenerated and that takes an > > > > extremely long time. I was wondering if this is normal > > > > behavior, and what if anything i could do to speed it up? > > > > > > make fetchindex > > > > > > Kris > > > > You can also increase the concurrency of "portsdb -U"/"make index" > > by setting INDEX_JOBS in /etc/make.conf. The default number of > > parallel jobs is 2. Increasing this to, say, 8, will save some > > time in building the index. > > In my testing 4 helped on a dual SMP machine but 8 didn't, because > the process was I/O bound already at 4. > There isn't a "make index" that can compete with downloading an INDEX.bz2. I timed a make fetchindex and it required all of 11 seconds on my DSL line. That would work out to around 3 minutes on a dial up. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html